{"id":1027751,"date":"2026-08-10T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027751"},"modified":"2026-08-10T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:05:07","slug":"no-charges-for-upi-users-most-transactions-to-remain-free-for-merchants-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/10\/no-charges-for-upi-users-most-transactions-to-remain-free-for-merchants-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"No charges for UPI users, most transactions to remain free for merchants: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Finance Ministry on Saturday clarified that consumers making payments through UPI will not face any transaction charges and all person-to-person (P2P) payments will continue to remain free of charge. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Finance Ministry said that as and when Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) charges are introduced, they will apply only to a limited set of merchant transactions above a certain threshold, at a nominal rate far lower than debit or credit card MDRs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Finance Ministry on Saturday clarified that consumers making payments through UPI will not face any transaction charges and all person-to-person (P2P) payments will continue to remain free of charge. In a statement, the Finance Ministry said that as and when Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) charges are introduced, they will apply only to a limited set of merchant transactions above a certain threshold, at a nominal rate far lower than debit or credit card MDRs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027781,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027751\/revisions\/1027781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}